Whitesands language

Whitesands
East Tanna
Native to Vanuatu
Region Tanna Island, east coast
Native speakers
7,500 (2001)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tnp
Glottolog whit1269[2]

Whitesands, or East Tanna, is a language spoken on the eastern coast of Tanna Island in Vanuatu. It is closely related to the North Tanna and Lenakel languages.[3]

References

  1. Whitesands at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Whitesands". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Hammond, J. (2009). The grammar of nouns and verbs in Whitesands, an oceanic language of Southern Vanuatu. Master Thesis, University of Sydney, Sydney. link
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